The Delhi walla's pretension in writing makes me want to lodge a bullet in his balls - Blogger Nimpipi, the woodchuck chucks GO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.Hanging out in Lodhi Garden.[Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi]It's cool to buy a farm in the south of France and write a book or two. But in the south of Punjab? Pakistani Punjab? Say salam alaikum to Daniyal Mueenuddin. The new star of Pakistan's literal scene came visiting the Indian capital early in 2008. He was pampered big time by Random House India, his publishers. And why not? The guy's fiction has been published not once, not twice, but thrice in The New Yorker magazine. I got to

The Delhi walla's pretension in writing makes me want to lodge a bullet in his balls - Blogger Nimpipi, the woodchuck chucks GO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.Delhi's own 'slumdog millionaire'. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi; black and white pictures by Vicky Roy]Born in a godforsaken village in Bihar, he stole his dad's money, fled home, boarded a train to Delhi, lived the hard street life, stole some more (like sneaking lunch packets from Shatabti Express trains), and is now flying to New York City. Some significant things happened between the theft and the flight. Former ragpicker Vicky Roy, now 21, was just another street kid growing up in a Salaam Baalak Trust shelter in